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Melody Makers

2016

Documentary

Documentary Melody Maker Magazine's Chief Contributing Photographer(1965-1975), Barrie Wentzell tells the story of the rise and fall of the magazine, which marked the end to a style of rock n' roll journalism that no longer exit's today.

	Author	Review
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"A feast for rock fans of a certain age (...) [It] will make music lovers desperately wish for a time machine to return to those halcyon days."	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"[A] hardly epochal but largely pleasant documentary"	POS
Canada	Norman Wilner Now Toronto	"[The] effect is similar to being trapped at a party with a stranger who won’t stop talking about the good old days (...) He may well be right, but he’s exhausting.(…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"As a documentary, it could benefit from a little more focus and a tighter edit, but as an overall look back at a time when rock and roll was entering a new, exciting era (...) [it] is charming, informative, and highly entertaining (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Gary Rose Radio Times	"A wistful whizz through the days when words and pictures could wrap a tantalising mystique around music that was often difficult to find."	POS
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"'Melody Makers' never becomes more than a set of disconnected sound bites and archival photos, loosely assembled"	NEU

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